6 people including a former mp are guilty in coal block scam..!?
The delhi Special court will pronounce the verdict on the punishment of all the culprits in this case on July 18. This scam is to hide the information about coal mining first and get a new mine allotted. The Special court of delhi has pronounced a verdict in chhattisgarh Coal Block Allocation Scam. A special court on thursday convicted all six accused in the case, including former rajya sabha mp Vijay Darda and his son Devendra Darda. All of them have been held guilty by the court under sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), and several sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act of the IPC in the case. The court will announce the sentence of all the convicts on July 18. Former prime minister Manmohan Singh's name was also in discussion in this case, as he was also in charge of the Coal Ministry during the scam. These are among the culprits in this case.
The six persons found guilty in the Coal Block Scam by the Special court are former rajya sabha mp Vijay Darda, his son Devendra Darda, former Coal Secretary HC Gupta, two senior bureaucrats KS Krofa and KC Samaria, and Messrs. J.L.D. Yavatmal Energy Private Limited Company and its director Manoj Kumar jaiswal are included. On november 10, 2016, a special court framed charges against all of them under sections 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 420 (cheating) of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act on the basis of a cbi investigation. After this, the hearing in the case was going on.
JLD Yavatmal Company was allotted Fatehpur east Coal Block in Chhattisgarh. The allotment was made on the basis of a recommendation letter written by the then rajya sabha mp Vijay Darda to the then prime minister Manmohan Singh. manmohan singh was in charge of the Coal Ministry. The opposition parties had alleged irregularities during the allotment in the case, following which the probe into the matter was handed over to the CBI. The cbi had registered in the FIR that former mp Vijay Darda had concealed facts in his letter. This work was done by JLD to allocate Fatehpur east Coal Block to Yavatmal Group. According to the cbi, the allocation of four coal blocks to Yavatmal Group companies between 1995-2005 was concealed. This led to irregularities in coal block allocation.
The cbi, which had alleged a scam in its FIR, had denied any irregularities in the closure report. However, the closure report was rejected by the court on november 20, 2014, and directed further investigation. After this, the Special cbi court granted bail to all the accused on august 20, 2015. Later on in the filing of the CBI's charge sheet, the court directed everyone to appear as accused. While fixing the charges in 2016, the court said that prima facie it appears to be a fraud committed by private individuals in collaboration with government officials.